Qualcomm at MWC announced that future portable Android devices with the company’s Snapdragon CPUs will have native support for streaming movies and TV shows from Netflix. The Netflix application will be easy on battery life as well, Qualcomm says, as efficient dedicated hardware will handle video decoding. The Netflix certification is also granted to the […]
Adobe at Mobile World Congress said that Flash 10.2 was coming to both Android 3.0 devices like the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the BlackBerry PlayBook. As it does on Macs and PCs, Flash 10.2 will support both Stage Video and GPU acceleration to take much of the load off the processor. The shift should significantly […]
Motorola announced at MWC that it will begin selling the Xoom tablet in Europe. The company will offer both a 3G/WiFi and a WiFi-only version. The Xoom runs Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), the first Android OS specifically designed for tablets. It features a 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 processor and a 10.1-inch HD screen. The 1280×800 display […]
Samsung confirmed its Mobile World Congress plans early with details of its two flagships. The Galaxy Tab II has an 10.1-inch, 1280×800 display similar to the Motorola Xoom. It uses Android 3.0 and runs on a 1GHz (likely dual-core) processor that can record 1080p video from the rear eight-megapixel camera. The Galaxy S II m […]
ViewSonic Europe on Friday kicked off its Mobile World Congress presentation by introducing a dual-SIM Android phone, the V350, and a dual-boot, 10-inch ViewPad 10Pro. The former has a 3.5-inch touchscreen and uses Android 2.2. It can answer calls coming to either SIM card’s phone number at the same time and is geared the most […]
Qualcomm today detailed the processor behind the HP TouchPad. It confirmed that the Snapdragon APQ8060 was launching first with the webOS tablet and had large amounts of headroom. The dual-core, 1.2GHz processor uses new Adreno 220 graphics and can play 1080p stereoscopic 3D, it said, even if the TouchPad didn’t support it. The processor can […]
HP today enlarged the HP webOS world with the first webOS slate – the HP TouchPad – the breakthrough webOS user interface fully realized in the tablet experience. TouchPad is one of three webOS products, the HP Veer and HP Pre announced today. The HP Touch pad has an 9.7-inch diagonal flush capacitive multitouch display, […]
Dell during a pre-briefing for its new business PCs confirmed that it was developing a 10-inch Windows 7 tablet. The slate received few real details but, despite Microsoft hopes, would be limited to enterprise users. The design would be for companies whose workers need “greater mobility” but who still need to meet specific security requirements, […]
Motorola is going to pitch its Xoom tablet during the Super Bowl with an ad that takes few punches at Apple owners. In the teaser below from Engadget you can see them saying, if you’re using Apple, you’re one of the sheep. This is the second teaser ad from Motorola (also below). The previous ad […]
LG on Friday confirmed that it would bring the G-Slate outside of the US at Mobile World Congress. It confirmed that the hardware would be badged as the Optimus Pad for other countries and would be very similar outside of the native 3G frequencies. In a surprise, it confirmed that the 8.9-inch tablet would have […]
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